Reading this post I've become far more concerned about men who assume women don't know what they want. If your excuse for acting like an asshole when someone asks you not to is "oh women don't know what they want" then you have a problem. No one wants to be treated like an object and given no respect and if you think that's the way to a woman's heart you will have awful relationships because that's how emotional abuse begins. Like @alarajrogers said there's a difference between being predatory and assertive and y'all need to learn what it is.
Male attraction does not need to be a conquest, the cat in a cat-and-mouse, a game where you can “score”, a victory when you get what you want.
Men do not have to be predators on the hunt to experience attraction or to seek a relationship. Women do not have to be prey.
This is heteronormative and problematic and just….like….
Having sex with a woman doesn’t have to be some kind of battle you’ve won. You didn’t beat the other Lion to the antelope because a woman agreed to have sex with you. Other men do not have to be rivals. Women do not have to be hunted and consumed.
Just creepin around conversations and appreciating people while I eat snacks
even on tumblr i’m the quiet kid that sits in the corner and doesn’t really know anyone
While in general I hate calling people nazis and comparisons to awful people of the past. We really have reached nazi levels of racism in America. People are calling ICE and militarized police on people knowing it may get them killed because of racism. People are going out of their way to put immigrants and black people in danger because of their petty grudges. People are supporting inhumane treatment of other human beings because they are "not american" and that is not ok.
The cover of the next Stern, a German news magazine.
The title Sein Kampf (transl. his struggle) is a play on the title of Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf (transl. my struggle).
The full translation of the cover would be
HIS STRUGGLE
Neonazis, Ku-Klux-Klan, Racism:
How Donald Trump is stirring up hatred in America
My dnd group sealing all the exits and burning down the boss's fortress instead of entering the fortress to rescue people and hear the evil people backstory
see that react?
that’s our dm
Oh my god this is me writing essays as deadlines approach
this fic will never be done
People don’t hate math. They hate being confused, intimidated, and embarrassed by math. Their problem is with how it’s taught.
I believe in us. As a country if we can remember what is important (autonomy, acceptance, the economy, human rights etc.) We can make a change and make sure no more awful, corrupt, uneducated, and unqualified people are elected. We as voters hold power.
On another note we really need a way to properly define and eliminate gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement.
Don’t be. You’re hearing media do what it does: harp on one person’s lack of enthusiasm and make it seem that that one opinion is held by thousands.
This race went precisely as I thought it would. Precisely.
And it was absolutely a massive success.
So let me tell you why, so that you feel better and can easily put down the annoying crowing that republicans are going to do, because they managed to cling to a few things.
If the votes fall as I believe they will, the democrats will have retaken the house by some 30 seats. This is impressive and somewhat unique in our country’s history. The GOP, upon taking the house originally, gerrymandered these districts in impressively screwball ways. Wherever that rigging has been overturned, the districts have gone blue. Which is, of course, why they did it. Democrats have the house now, 30ish flips in republican rugged districts. 15 of those being female candidates.
That is absolutely impressive.
A few key candidates to whom many people were paying close attention did not perform as people desired. Abrams, O’Rourke, Gillum. Well…I’m not surprised. Abrams faces absolute state wide fraud. Her opponent being the person also in charge of voter registration, withholding some 50k votes of which 70% were black. Voter intimidation. This is blatant corruption. And yet still…her race was very close. So too with Beto. Ted Cruz was a presidential candidate! When he took Texas, he did so with a wide margin in most districts. Last night in Texas he was fighting tooth and nail. Gillum’s gubernatorial race for Florida was a figurative dead heat. 99% of the vote in—49% Gillum, 49.7% DeSantis. These are CLASSICALLY and FULLY republican regions in which Trump took the presidency by huge margins. That these races, with all those challenges, were as close as they were PROVES that something unprecedented happened.
3-400% voter turnout increases for a midterm election. Mostly with the youth.
But let’s talk about what it means to have the house.
Now I know you’re probably concerned about the federal judgeships that are about to pop up for consideration, and it’s true that the Senate was needed to stop approvals of those candidates, but…
Control of the house means that Democrats now take hold of some critical committees. These committees are the very ones that will be overseeing corruption allegations. Ways and Means, energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Intelligence, appropriations, foreign affairs, armed services, judiciary, transportation and infrastructure, and…government reform.
How do you feel now?
The worst political fallout of a GOP controlled government, the worst sound bites that weren’t Trump’s, the worst slaps across the face? All came from footage of those very same committees. Those committees now belong to Democrats.
Massive policy shifts also occurred in many classically conservative states—legalizing marijuana votes, Florida giving the vote back to former criminals who’ve served their time thus giving the vote back to a HUGE portion of the African-American Community that has been held in check by a racist and classicist policing method, then there were upsets in many small ways too.
I promise you…this is all excellent and it will have truly important and forceful impact. In 2020, if we can keep that same enthusiasm and rage, the entire government will shift. But that can only happen if we keep moving forward, if the candidates who won keep their noses to the grindstone and push back hard, if you and I and everyone on the ground continues to talk about this and force out bigots and greed.
Do not be discouraged. I promise you…this was an amazing election. Don’t focus on a few bright stars and think that all is lost because they fell. There is a great deal happening here, and one thing I know from being at sea—when a wave is building, there is first a terrifying shift, as the water level begins to rise. The ship will first dip, surrounded by walls of water, and then of a sudden, the swell. The ship raises and passengers suddenly realize that they are much higher than before, with an incredible view. Then the wave crests and takes the ship with it.
We didn’t see a wave crest tonight. So what? That means it’s a much larger wave than we realized. It will crest in the future. But only if that fluid pressure is maintained.
This is good. It is. So long as everyone keeps working. This is good.
Calm down. Have a glass of champagne. A cup of tea. When they Trumpet all their noise…say nothing. Nothing needs to be said. You’re higher than you were with an excellent view of the ending. So relax. Don’t fret.
Augh I don't know how I feel two characters I like but don't ship are doin the sex.
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